As the Queen celebrates her 50 year reign, BBC News Online presents all the best moment from the Golden Jubilee festivities throughout the UK and Commonwealth.

Jubilee celebrations finish

The royal tour and other celebrations to mark the Queen's 50 years on the throne come to an end. After travelling to every corner of the UK, the Queen and Prince Philip begin their summer holiday at Balmoral.

The Queen watched from a Buckingham Palace balcony as one million people joined a spectacular climax to the Jubilee weekend. Parades, pageantry, and a service of thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral brought well-wishers together for the celebrations.

A host of pop stars played before a thrilled crowd in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. Thousands more gathered outside the palace to watch stars including Tom Jones, Eric Clapton and Brian May of Queen on giant screens.

The Queen dined in Downing Street as Tony Blair brought together her previous prime ministers to celebrate her 50th anniversary on the throne. The event marked the start of the official Golden Jubilee celebrations.

The Queen used her Golden Jubilee address to both Houses of Parliament to dismiss any suggestion she might abdicate. She also made a point of stressing Britain's "remarkably" peaceful transition to a "multicultural and multi-faith society".

Thousands turned out in Devon and Cornwall to see the Queen as she began her Jubilee tour of the country. She visited the new National Maritime Museum in Falmouth and spent the evening in Exeter watching a musical performance by school children.

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh paid an unscheduled visit to the Northern Ireland town hit by a terrorist bomb which killed 29 people. The bombing carried out by the Real IRA in August 1998 resulted in the largest single loss of life during the Troubles.

The Queen wished the England team good luck in the World Cup when she met coach Sven Goran Eriksson while in Berkshire as part of her Golden Jubilee tour. She also met players Owen Hargreaves and Sol Campbell.

The Queen thanks the Scottish people for their support in her family's recent bereavements at a special church service in Edinburgh. The Queen's Golden Jubilee tour also takes her to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.

The Queen chose to begin her tour of Wales by train. A steam engine taking the royal train to Anglessey for official engagements before she travelled to Cardiff to make her first ever address to the Welsh assembly.

The Queen mixed with stars at London's Royal Academy of Arts as she opened the new Annenberg Courtyard, as part of her Jubilee celebrations. She has been the subject of dozens of portraits during her reign, despite not being a big fan of the arts.

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